Hot, flat, and crowded : why we need a green revolution, and how it can renew America
Title:
Hot, flat, and crowded : why we need a green revolution, and how it can renew America
Author:
Friedman, Thomas L.
Personal Author:
Edition:
First edition.
Publication Information:
New York : Farrar, Straus and Giroux, [2008]
©2008
Physical Description:
438 pages : illustrations ; 22 cm
Summary:
Examines America's loss of focus and national purpose since 9/11, and the global environmental crisis, and shows how the solutions to these two problems are linked.
General Note:
Includes index.
Language:
English
Contents:
Where we are -- Where birds don't fly -- Today's date : 1 E.C.E. Today's weather : hot, flat, and crowded -- How we got here -- Our carbon copies (or, Too many Americans) -- Fill 'er up with dictators -- Global weirding -- age of Noah -- Energy poverty -- Green is the new red, white, and blue -- How we move forward -- 205 easy ways to save the Earth -- energy Internet : when IT meets ET -- Stone Age didn't end because we ran out of stones -- If it isn't boring, it isn't green -- million Noahs, a million arks -- Outgreening al-Qaeda (or, Buy one, get four free) -- China -- Can Red China become Green China? -- America -- China for a day (but not for two) -- Democratic China, or a banana republic? -- Acknowledgments -- Index.
Program Information:
Accelerated Reader AR UG 10.9 39.0 153969.
Subject Term:
ISBN:
9780374166854
Format :
Book
